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Geneva — An all-in-one communication app for groups & communities
Geneva is an all-in-one communication app for groups, clubs, and communities. Chat, post, hangout, livestream, plan, and more — it’s everything your group needs to stay connected, all in one place. The app is free to use and live on iPhone, Android, & Web.
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@justinhauser @mazzeo Thank you so much!! We really appreciate the support ❤️🌼
Very excited to see great community tools like this, built from the ground up for this modern age. This is just the beginning and I'm excited to see where the team goes from here. You could've seen these trendlines happening a few years ago as folks cobbled together so many different platforms to try and give their people what they want -- now enter: Geneva.
You're amazing @alexisohanian. Thank you so much for the support. It means the world to the team and I ❤️
This app is great for communication. Most of all, I like the feature that it permits you to make groups of different interests, and everyone interested can join the groups and share their ideas. I found it a year ago. I was browsing a website where you can download APK files. I saw this app, and this was the first communication app that costs money I saw in my life. I was interested in what it represents. Now I am using it from time to time when I don't have what to do. I open it and read what is new in the groups I joined.
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Hey guys - massive congrats on a remarkable looking product! I am literally just reviewing my community options as we speak over the last week and was weighing up circle or mighty but now you guys have thrown a very deliberate spanner in there!
I'd love to know what the main points of differentiation are if you are happy to share - why choose you over them (intended in the nicest non confrontational tone possible!) x
@murraymuzz Hey Daniel, thank you! Glad we caught you in the nick of time and appreciate the question. The biggest difference is that Circle and Mighty focus on one type of interaction: asynchronous, forum-style posts akin to a Facebook Groups. On Geneva, you can use that same style of asynchronous post rooms, PLUS real-time chat rooms, group audio and video rooms, and broadcast rooms (which are a bit like private Instagram live or Clubhouse with video).
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@murraymuzz building on @rightbackatyu's point - we've found that the ability to mix and match these different communication types creates a more dynamic space. And of course, unlike those platforms, Geneva is totally free to use!
You can read our introductory blog post for more details (https://geneva.com/blog/hey) and if you'd like, feel free to reach out to Kim, our Head of Groups & Communities (kim@geneva.com) to learn more and/or to see all of the above in action!
@rightbackatyu great answers thank you - makes lots of sense.
Next question - are there paid/unpaid versions of joining the community? Couldnt really see that option in any obvious way...
And whilst I have you is there like a public landing page experience you could send people to so to speak....
Oh and finally - does this sit separately to websites/brands or can it be integrated with shopify/squarespace etc as an extension of the brand experience?
Thanks!
PS: Totally appreciate you cant make it all things to all use cases so sorry for some of the nuanced questions here but in case you've not guessed - brand owner here! I did read your whole post of who's using it etc but all the links link to their websites, not their community spaces so its kind of hard to see how those are run....
@murraymuzz Hey Daniel, a couple responses:
- Yup, built-in entry fees are coming this summer so leaders will have the option to do a paid model.
- Yes: today, when you share an invite link to your Geneva home and someone clicks it, they'll see a mini-landing page that shows your home's name, details, and list of rooms inside. Toward the end of the year we're planning to make public-facing home landing pages even more robust and pair them with custom (vanity) domains.
- For now, Geneva groups sit separately from third-party payments and vendors, but we're planning to launch a membership API (likely through Zapier) in Q3 or Q4.
We completely understand (and hear from the groups on Geneva today!) that brands really value customizability and a space that looks and feels on-brand, and are working hard to make that happen :)
?makers: Product aside (looks awesome!), that launch video was rad. Who produced it?
OK, I dig this quite a bit. I'm finding that Discord might be a bit too much like Slack and that something more similar to Twitter/FB/Reddit might be the way to go.
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thanks @drew! Yea, we've found that the ability to mix and match those different styles of convo for different moments / topics / sub-groups is really powerful! This way you get both the spontaneity/connection benefits of more casual daily banter with the organization/management benefits of those slightly more formal 'post' style interactions. Once you've given it a spin with a group, let us know how how it goes 🙌
@samliebeskind would love to chat more and share a few ideas on how we'd love to use it. crunchdrew at gmail
Looks really interesting. I'm curious if there's also an opportunity to integrate a b2b component here for groups within companies.
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thanks @philiplang! I could totally see Geneva being useful for affinity groups, ambassador programs, distributed employees within companies, or even contractors (we've seen a bunch of examples of these kinds of groups already during the beta this past year).
Geneva is one of the most interesting products in a long time to reinvent how communities can engage! To quickly summarize, Geneva is an all-in-one communication app for groups, clubs, and communities of all shapes & sizes.
Congratulations @justinhauser and team on this launch. I'm looking to launch HAX (personal finance community for GenZ) and been debating whether to use Discord or Slack. This sounds amazing, will def take a look.
Do you have a feature that can create micro-squads for accountability similar to the Donut Slack app? Thanks!
@justinhauser @karsenthil Thanks so much! We'd love to host you & your HAX community. We don't have a feature that is exactly like Donut but we've seen groups do 'breakout cohorts' on Geneva in a number of ways. If you're interested, our Community team would be more than happy to walk you through this and show you some GenZ-focused communities on Geneva today!
@justinhauser @rightbackatyu Hey Austin - yeah I'd love to chat, plus learn more about how you intend to charge via the 5% of transactions. How can I set-up time?
@justinhauser @karsenthil Feel free to set up time directly with Kim, our Head of Groups & Communities, via email (kim@geneva.com)! Just watched your podcast trailer on Twitter, sounds exciting :)
@justinhauser @geneva @rightbackatyu Awesome, email coming your way Kim! And thanks for the kind word on the podcast - we're now live FYI (you can find it on Spotify): https://anchor.fm/securethebagshow
I've been following Geneva for a long time – it's so great to see the PH community rallying behind it!
Excited for Geneva’s vision to finally be shared publicly. Kudos to the team for all their work on this amazing product.
Congrats to @justinhauser and the entire team on the public launch! I’ve been using for a few months and love the versatility of the product! 🚀
I live in Geneva (true story) and have been using Geneva since last summer
Great product ! Kudos to @justinhauser and team !
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thanks @callmeelles! Let us know if you have any feedback or ideas on what you'd hope to see us build in next 😊
This product is fantastic - congrats to the team, you've really built something remarkable
I've been in the community building game for a while and this is one of my favorite new platforms! Excited to see this team and product grow. Good people doing good things <3
As a community manager who uses an number of different tools to run a number of different community's is there an onboarding video of any sort. As ever trying to move people from one platform to another is always a challenge in my experience. So if I have a FBG with 300 members how do I get them hooked into Geneva :) Thanks for any thoughts
Looks like your app is a little bit broken Monday 20210524 3:32pm PST ??
user profile not updating? … you prolly know already, but heads up. 😃
@justinhauser
Thank you so much for the catch @rowemore and sorry to have inconvenienced you. We're on it. Please let me know if you experience any other issues with the app. We are grateful for your consideration and your feedback :)
Maker
Hey @pavankat - Great question! Because Discord was initially built for gamers and Geneva purpose-built for social groups, there are a few core differences about the platforms (in addition to small details and overall feel of course)...
- How people can interact: On Discord, you can chat in chat channels, talk in audio or video channels, or do audio-only broadcasts on 'stages'. Geneva offers all of that (including threaded replies in chat rooms), plus asynchronous forum-style 'post' channels (more like a FB Group or Reddit) and video 'broadcast' channels allowing up to 9 people to live stream to an audience of thousands
- Real people: Discord encourages pseudonyms/screen names while Geneva encourages people to use their real identities to create more personal connections and minimize trolling
- Events: Geneva has a full built-in Events stack/calendar that encourages and facilitates IRL interactions in addition to virtual ones
Hope that's helpful!
@pavankat @samliebeskind These are exactly the features Discord is missing to make it work for our community. Nice job
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